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Its Never Too Early to Check Your Home for Carpenter Ants

It’s Never Too Early To Check Your Home for Carpenter Ants

Sometimes spring feels like it’s too early to worry about insects invading your home. After all, there are still plenty of cold nights that make it seem like winter may not be gone yet. However, this time of year is when you need to be watchful for …
Ants in My House This Winter? Say It Isn't So!

Ants in My House This Winter? Say It Isn't So!

Winter is often the time we want to hibernate in our cozy houses, but when carpenter ants decide to make our home their home, we need them gone — and fast. Even in winter, carpenter ant control is a necessity for all homeowners. While other ants can …
Carpenter Ant

What is a Carpenter Ant?

You may not have thought about this before, but as the ant control experts, we certainly have! There are so many different species of ants out there. Astonishingly, more than 12,000 species of ants have been discovered so far. But only 100 or so of …
Where Do Carpenter Ants Go in Winter

Where Do Carpenter Ants Go in Winter?

As we do with many pests, we tend to associate ant infestations with warm summer days and the fresh air of spring. Carpenter ants are a particularly dangerous pest when they get inside your home and they’ll demand immediate and professional ant …
Ants walking on a piece of branch

Just How Destructive are Carpenter Ants?

Despite the high level of structural damage carpenter ants can do to buildings, they are valuable insects. Out in nature, they chew wood creating tunnels to make their nests. This chewed up wood become fine sawdust, which eventually rots and …
Pest Control: Difference between Carpenter Ants and Termites

Pest Control: Difference between Carpenter Ants and Termites

When it comes to the damage that carpenter ants and termites cause to your home, it can be easy to get the two insects confused. And the similarities don’t stop there! Both of them look very similar and both will establish colonies inside your home. …

Do Mild Winters Mean More Carpenter Ants?

Milder winters may feel like a welcome break from the colder, more familiar Canadian winter conditions. These milder conditions are the perfect conditions however for the early entry of carpenter ants into your home. During the cold winter months, …